I wrapped up my year-long journal quilting project in 2012, two weeks after my daughter was born. It was a terrific project for me and one that I am tempted to repeat. If nothing else, I had something on my to do list every week that encouraged me to get into the studio for some […]

I heard recently that the brother of someone in my art group passed away suddenly. An image formed in my mind immediately upon reading about it of angel wings on a purple background. Other images have popped in my head over the years and just as quickly popped back out again, but not this one. […]

This week’s photo challenge was to shoot a photo with red as the dominant color. I was thinking about the challenge walking to work the next morning after reading the lesson and I realized that I had just gotten off a Red Line T train, walked past some lovely red flowers at a flower stand, […]

I can’t believe that I have now been posting these Turn Back Thursday journal quilt posts for an entire year. But, here we are, at the end of my journal quilting project. Like last week’s quilt, this one was made a little late because we were home with a newborn in Week 52. Actually, in […]

This week, I finally finished one of the items on my to do list to “finish” a room. All I needed to do was to hang pictures in my daughter’s playroom, which is now done. Here’s the Before picture, from the night we moved into the house: A year and a half later, she certainly […]

Okay, I blew off this week’s Photo Challenge assignment. This week we were to take a picture of a loved one. Not a hard assignment and I did take several cute photos of my daughter, but we got home at 10 pm and I just couldn’t bring myself to turn on the computer to submit […]

The journal quilt for week 51 did not get made that week (or the next). As Week 51 of my project began, I was in the hospital having just delivered a baby. The timing had been perfect – our child was due the week after my journal quilt project was scheduled to end. But, as […]

In 2009, I made drapes and shades for my bedroom. Now 7 years later, I am finally making the quilt and thanks to Mother’s Day and the ability to spend as much time in the sewing room as I pleased without feeling guilty about it, I made good progress on it. So, here’s what’s hanging […]